Ones Ready
A team of active duty Combat Control (CCT), Pararescue (PJ), and Special Reconnaissance (SR) leveraging our 69 years of special operations experience to make the next generation of operators smarter, faster and stronger than we ever were. We are the PREMIERE resource for all things Air Force Special Warfare. The Ones Ready Podcast is honest talk about what it is like to go from a know-nothing high school graduate to an elite Special Operator. We will cover important practices for success including physical training, nutrition, recovery, and mindset traits essential to any team. Join us in The Team Room to get all your questions answered!! With battle-tested operators from across USAF SPECWAR and far-reaching web of recruiters, subject matter experts, and friends, there are no questions we can’t answer- and if we can’t, we know exactly where to look. See you in The Team Room!Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the OnesReady team are those of the team and do not reflect the official policy or position of the DoD. Any content provided by our Podcast guests, bloggers, sponsors, or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign the DoD, any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone.
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656 episodes
Ep 492: Aaron's Origin Story
What happens when a broke, hungover Ohio kid accidentally throws a beer bottle in front of a cop car, watches 9/11 unfold on a CRT TV, and decides to radically change the trajectory of his life? You get Aaron Love. In this solo mic-dro...
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Episode 492
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Ops Brief 080: Daily Drop - 24 July 2025 - Space Force Wants $175B for a Dome? Cool Cool Cool…
Peaches drops into the team room to roast the DoD’s latest brainchild—the $175 billion Golden Dome missile defense program. Because nothing says “fiscal responsibility” like duct-taping old tech to new threats. From sketchy F-35 upgrades to AI-...
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Ops Brief 079: Daily Drop - 23 July 2025 (The Pentagon Spent What on a Space Blimp?)
Peaches is back with another scathing ops brief—this time dragging the DoD for everything from mystery missiles and “indefinite quantity” contracts (yeah, that’s real) to billion-dollar Iron Dome knockoffs. From Space Force promotions to “near-...
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Ops Brief 078: Daily Drop - 22 July 2025 (Army Embarrassing Themselves...AGAIN!)
Peaches returns with another banger, torching bureaucratic blunders and Joint Force nonsense. From the Pentagon flexing like it just invented drone grenades, to the DoD accidentally letting Chinese engineers tinker with our cloud—this one's a s...
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MBRS 70: You’re Not Special, You Just Hate Yourself Better
In this no-filter banger, the Ones Ready crew dives headfirst into the absurdity of military influencer culture, retirement nonsense, and why negotiating like a sociopath at a used car lot might just be your new superpower. Aaron reflects on th...
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MBRS 69: I Got Arrested Right Before Basic… And Still Shipped
Welcome to another unfiltered Members Only episode where Trent and Aaron spiral into storytime chaos—ripping into everything from the cult of military influencers to the sacred tradition of roasting yourself in the team room. Aaron drops the mi...
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Ep 491: Older Dude Smashes TACP Pipeline – Then Ghosts the Air Force for MBA
Buckle up, aspiring warriors and pipeline survivors – the Ones Ready crew is back with a savage takedown of military myths, featuring Tac P legend Alex Chiapetta, who joined the Air Force at the ripe old age of 27 (gasp!) and somehow didn't sha...
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Episode 491
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***Sneak Peek***MBRS 56: Tactical Athletes, Toxic DMs, and the Fine Art of Breaking Rules
In this glorious mess of a members-only episode, Peaches and Trent go full rogue: no guests, no guardrails, just straight-up brain dumps and verbal knife fights. The guys break down the importance of cognitive stress training, Air Forc...
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Ep 490: From Sweaty Enlisted TACP to TACP Officer Hot-Bunker – Lt Col Temple (Sleeping Bags Mandatory)
This one’s a banger, folks. Lt Col Brandon Temple—Mustang, TACP legend, and card-carrying member of the “deep state”—joins the team room and brings the heat. From botching his shot at pro baseball to stumbling into the Air Force via a giant bin...
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Episode 490
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MBRS 68: Tim Kennedy Lied—Now What? Insulate or Isolate?
In this unfiltered members-only solo rant, Jared wrestles with the never-ending Tim Kennedy drama—because apparently just being a Green Beret and UFC fighter wasn’t enough for the guy. With fake valor awards, bogus war stories, and a b...
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Ops Brief 077: Daily Drop - 17 July 2025 (The Air Force Runs on Excel and Hope)
Welcome to your no-fluff, sarcasm-fueled download of the Ones Ready Ops Brief for July 17th. In this episode, we cover everything from Excel-budget nightmares and B-1 Lancer drama to Space Force doing... whatever it is Space Force does. Jared r...
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Ops Brief 076: Daily Drop - 16 July 2025 ($300M Barracks, Broken Drones, and Busted Tankers)
Hope you packed your sense of humor and a fire extinguisher—because this episode scorches everything from overpriced moldy barracks in Guam to the Pentagon ghosting Aspen like it’s a bad Tinder date. Jared runs down the biggest WTFs across the ...
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Ops Brief 075: Daily Drop - 15 July 2025 (Pentagon's Drone Panic: Why We're Still Screwing Up the Sky While China Laughs)
Buckle up, buttercups—Jared's back in the Ones Ready team room, dishing out yesterday's DoD drama because the PAO couldn't update today's headlines. Hegeth's memo: stop being bureaucratic wimps, buy American drones fast—excessive caution is the...
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Ep 489: Founder of Carolinas for Ukraine - (ret) COL Curtis Lee
This episode is a gut punch of clarity and common sense wrapped in Hoist-fueled sarcasm. Aaron and Peaches sits down with retired Marine Corps Colonel Curtis Lee—civil affairs legend, community builder, and founder of Carolinas for Ukraine<...
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Episode 489
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Ops Brief 074: Daily Drop - 11 July 2025 (Drones, Dress Codes, and Space Wars)
Welcome to the July 11th edition of the Daily Drop, where the Pentagon plays Monopoly with rare earth minerals, drones become the new IEDs, and Trump hands out Patriot missiles like party favors—with NATO picking up the tab (allegedly). Jared u...
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Ep 488: Updates to the Updates for AFSW Pipeline!
Aaron rolls solo to drop a grenade on your expectations and walk you through the jaw-dropping overhaul of the Air Force Special Warfare pipeline. New names. New timelines. New chaos. Is dive school back? Is SWOE-V dead? Will your career implode...
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Episode 488
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Ops Brief 073: Daily Drop - 10 July 2025 (We Bombed Iran, Moved F-16s, & Still Can’t Share Simulators)
It’s July 10th, and the Daily Drop is back with Jared dropping truth bombs harder than a B-1 on afterburner. From the announcement of the next Operator Training Summit in Nashville (spoiler: it’s gonna slap) to the Pentagon lobbing real ones at...
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Ops Brief 072: Daily Drop - 9 July 2025 (We Let China Buy Farmland. WTF Were We Thinking?)
The Ones Ready crew is back with a blistering Daily Drop that reads like a classified briefing laced with caffeine and outrage. Jared goes scorched-earth on the U.S. finally banning Chinese farmland buys (spoiler: it’s 2025 and somehow this was...
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MBRS 67: "We Broke the Pipeline... On Purpose?" – Monster Trucks and Hero Coasties
Trent and Peaches start with monster trucks and end up demolishing the Special Warfare pipeline. But first, they highlight the absolute unit that is Scott Ruskan, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer who saved 165 people during the Texa...
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Ops Brief 071: Daily Drop - 8 July 2025 (Troops in LA, Marines in Florida, & Generals Selling Jet Dreams)
In this no-holds-barred Daily Drop, Peaches dives headfirst into the latest national defense chaos—from Humvees rolling through LA to Marines moonlighting as ICE support in Florida. Pete Hegseth wants to bring the warrior spirit back (because a...
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Ep 487: Big Beautiful AFSW Pipeline updates for July 2025!
After six months of silence, the Ones Ready crew finally unleashes a no-holds-barred breakdown of the looming AFSPECWAR pipeline overhaul—and spoiler alert: it’s a total mess. From gutting water confidence to pushing combat dive into career pur...
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***Sneak Peek***MBRS 55: Brad Pitt’s Haircut Ruined War Movies
Trent and Peaches are back on the Ones Ready podcast, and this members-only episode is a no-holds-barred roast of Hollywood’s war movie obsession, questionable haircuts, and the veteran life nobody talks about. From dunking on Fury’s o...
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Ops Brief 070: Daily Drop - 4 July 2025 (Midnight Hammer Drops Truth Bombs)
Peaches returns with a scorched-earth breakdown of America’s latest military moves—and screwups. From counter-UAS task forces to the Pentagon’s \$330M-per-jet regrets, this episode tears into drone threats, Space Force drama, and Operation Midn...
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Ops Brief 069: Daily Drop - 2 July 2025 (B-2 Upgrades & The Air Force Rage Quits)
The Air Force is bleeding instructors, CENTCOM's next boss is a mystery wrapped in vagueness, and the B-2 is getting a glow-up because, well, the B-21 still isn’t ready. In this Daily Drop, Jared dives into the military’s latest budget frenzy, ...
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MBRS 66: Tim Kennedy’s Valor Lie, Lobster War Prophecies, & the Domino’s Nuke Indicator – WTF Are We Even Doing?
The Ones Ready crew returns to burn down the house with a brutally honest breakdown of integrity, influence, and idiocy in the military influencer world. Jared’s new book Wet Death gets high praise (and a bit of trolling), Aaron confes...
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